Natural Convection in a Non-Uniformly Heated Vertical Annular Cavity

Abstract:

Natural convection from the linearly heated inner and/or outer walls of a vertical annular cavity has been numerically investigated. The bottom wall is uniformly heated and top cylindrical wall is thermally insulated. In this analysis, we considered two different thermal boundary conditions, namely case (I) and case (II) to understand the effect of non-uniform heating of inner and/or outer walls on the convective flow and subsequently the local and global heat transfer rate. For case (I), the inner and outer walls are heated linearly, while the linearly heated inner wall and cooled outer wall is considered in case (II). An implicit finite difference scheme is applied to solve the model equations of the problem. The numerical simulations in terms of streamlines and isotherms, local and global Nusselt numbers are presented to illustrate the effects of Rayleigh number and non-uniform thermal boundary conditions for a fixed Prandtl number of Pr = 0.7.

• Periodical: Defect and Diffusion Forum (Volume 377)
• Pages: 189-199
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/DDF.377.189
• Online since: September 2017
• Authors: M. Sankar, S. Kiran, G.K. Ramesh*, Oluwole Daniel Makinde
• Keywords: Annulus, Convection, Finite Difference Method, Non-Uniform Heating

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